Suffering Quotes

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.

When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind